Monuments and parks weren't closed during the LAST shutdown.

I'm glad somebody looked into this, its one of the things that's been bugging me about this shutdown thingy. I couldn't remember anything like this
happening in the 90's when the gubment got shut down under Clinton.

It seems Obama is playing Chicago-style politics with our national monuments just to create some symbolic pressure to get the gubment funded again.
His message is; if you won't fund the gubment, I'm gonna take my ball home and NOBODY gets to play.

Monuments and memorials remained open during previous shutdown

Although President Obama claims that he can’t avoid shutting down public sites and monuments, war memorials were in fact kept open during the
1995/1996 government shutdowns. The administration’s decision to barricade the Lincoln Memorial marks the first time in its history the memorial
has been totally off limits to visitors during a shutdown.

It is not clear how much taxpayer money the Obama administration is paying to ensure that government sites and services remain shuttered to taxpayers.
Popular Washington spots such as the World War II memorial are now guarded by more security personnel than they are during normal operations, while
federal employees have been dispatched to put up barricades on capital bike paths and other public grounds that are not usually patrolled at
all.

This way the administration has handled this shutdown has been just childish and petulant IMO. Instead of trying to bring about a compromise and
getting the gubment funded before we go into default, they are only interested in pointing fingers and winning political points with their supporters.

How much reasearch did you do on this topic, aside from reading the one article you linked? Here is the truth of the matter:

"The park closures in 1995 made a tangible difference," said Joan Anzelmo, who worked that year as a spokeswoman for Grand Teton National
Park. "The visual of park rangers closing down national parks, closing down the Statue of Liberty and the Washington Monument -- keeping Americans
out of these iconic American sites -- those visuals were really a strong factor in people understanding what a government shutdown meant. People got
mad."

If the government shuts down on Tuesday, all 401 national parks, monuments, battlefields, and other park units would be closed. In 1995-96,
the closure of those parks cost businesses and local governments $295 million by preventing 7 million park visits, as political scientist Roy Meyers
points out.

There is 3 sources I found in less than one minute that all refute your OP. However, I consider myself the most reliable source because I had a trip
planned to a national park during the last shutdown. I made my trip, but the park was closed.

Makes you wonder why there is a shutdown, its all a game, right/left and everything is a script with them. Ison interacted electrically with mars,
and maybe we're not supposed to know whats coming, this is the Electric Universe and Ison gives off xrays or a charge. Maybe they think they can
prohibit the people from accessing their own land in emergencies.

The article points out that open air monuments and parks were not barricaded off and closed to the public. People weren't threatened back then with
arrest just for walking on a piece of gubment land.

Sure, you still couldn't go inside the Washington Monument and the big National Parks would have to be closed if there are no rangers to man them and
insure visitor safety but, people were NOT prohibited from walking on the National Mall or Lincoln Memorial as they are this time.

Looking at the barricades they put up, they seem to be quite expensive looking and not something that they just had lying around. It makes you wonder
how long those things have been in the gubment possession, just waiting for something like this shutdown to pull them out and put them into action.
I'll bet Obama had this whole monument shut-down planned in advance in case the Republicans ever came through on their threats to shut down the
government.

They should take a lesson from all of this and padlock the entire House in the House chamber..

padlock the Senate in the Senate chamber

padlock the President in the Oval Office

Until..

They do the job they were elected to do..

No MSM BS blame game photo ops, they all have enough raving pundits to fill the air time, the only time I want to see any of the elected is when they
are on their respected workplaces, and being aired on CSpan..

The President can check in with the daily press spinning should he have anything productive to report on the negotiations..

They colllectively have made it quite clear that they cannot secure the borders with a fence, but have proven that without funding or budget, they can
certainly build fences around open air national monuments to make a point?

More people really need to read the darn thing, it makes so much of what is going on make sense. It really does. Of course, the amount of conspiracy
stuff surrounding it makes it a bit hard to take seriously, but you can always go to the UN itself and read a lot about it, as well as order (on your
dime, of course) an actual copy of the Agenda.

*Hint* It really doesnt do anything to address sustainability and "green living."

FortAnthem
It seems Obama is playing Chicago-style politics with our national monuments

Of course he is. It's his M.O. He did the same thing by closing the White House to tours and by grounding the Blue Angels. (all while he still
found the money to go golfing every week and take his family on mega expensive vacations that the tax payer had to pick up security and Air Force One
expenses on)

Also the US has a very odd system. To not have enough unity in the houses to pass a budget or legislation of any kind would mean a lack of
confidence, and folding of goverment, and an election call. So, why is he still there?

I don't understand how someone can be so unpopular with the people and their representatives, albeit corrupt representatives, and still be allowed to
continue to govern.

You need to stop treating the Daily Caller" like a news source. They are a political tabloid...

In this Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1995, file photo, U.S. Park Service Police Officer P.G. Carroll stands in front of closed signs at the Lincoln Memorial
in Washington, during a partial shutdown of the federal government. There have been 17 government shutdowns since 1976, ranging in length from one to
21 days. (AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi, File)

A sign hangs in the window of an information booth Saturday Dec. 16, 1995 at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington announcing the temporary closure of
the attraction due to the government shutdown. Parts of the federal government were ordered shut down Saturday as President Clinton blamed the
Republican Congress for attempting to force unacceptable cuts in programs affecting the lives of children, the elderly and the poor.(AP Photo/Mark
Wilson)

Personally, I would be a tiny bit more concerned if the supposed "Posers in Charge" began threatening to tear down these monuments and memorials to
keep from having to spend money on them in future budgets.

If the corporate mindset has taken over the country, as it appears to have done, that would be the most cost effective approach to avoiding problems
with funding in the future.

If there is no profit generated it will be eliminated, food stamps generate more profits than national parks.

Self maintaining slaves we are....we discuss what's happening right now, there is no tomorrow after all, for everyone eventually.

Because, unfortunately, the majority of the voting population bought into his 'hope and change' rhetoric and voted him in. So unless it can be
proven in a court of law that he broke the law, and unless someone is willing to go after him and brave the full fury of his administration, we are
stuck with him until the next election.

I had a feeling this article was a lie. Political sensationalism is getting extreme on both ends of the spectrum and the mass media is buying into it
all to rile everyone up. We need to stop dividing on the issues and unite. Our country is tearing itself apart.

I'm calling Liar, Liar, pants on fire at both, yourself and the source link you provide in your OP.

I was in Hawaii during the last government shutdown and my wife & I were denied access to the Pearl Harbor Memorial as well as other national parks
located in Maui because they were closed due to the government shutdown.

Lies, lies and more lies. Don't you tea baggers have any strategy other than lying?

This thread belongs in the "Hoax forum" or at the very least it belongs in the LOL or "ludicrous online lies" forum.

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